Rethinking Higher Education in the Age of AIPresented by Dr. J.D. Mosley-Matchett In our first Friday SLO Talk of Spring 2026, Dr. J.D. Mosley-Matchett challenged us to move beyond reactionary thinking about artificial intelligence in higher education. Instead of asking whether AI is “good” or “bad,” she framed the moment through three powerful metaphors: Each […]
What happens to student learning when the classroom no longer has just one doorway? That was the guiding question in Professor Brian Beatty’s Friday SLO Talk, where he unpacked how HyFlex courses expand access without losing sight of what matters most: evidence of learning. What Does Learning Mean in HyFlex? HyFlex (Hybrid + Flexible) courses […]
by Jarek Janio, Ph.D. In my last post, I explored the idea sparked by Dr. Gavin Henning’s Friday SLO Talk that AI can be used not just to assess students, but to analyze how instructors shape learning through feedback. This “meta-assessment” flips the script: instead of asking only how students performed, we start asking how […]
Friday SLO Talk (December 1, 2023) Decoding the Dilemma: AI-Crafted Assignments, Student Responses, and the Potential Illusion of Learning Assessment Dive into the intersection of AI and student learning assessment. Explore how faculty wield AI to shape assignments, while students use it to craft responses. Uncover the blurred lines where AI-drafted assignments may be […]
Friday SLO Talk (October 20, 2023) First Presentation: Rodrigo Gomez is an Assistant Professor of English at San Diego Miramar College, where he’s been teaching transfer-level composition and literature courses since 2016. Professor Gomez has a passion for rhetoric, pedagogy, and poetry. He also has interest in gamification, edtech, and web3 technologies like artificial intelligence […]
Using Canvas for Automated Data CollectionFrederick’s Friday SLO Talk Summary:This session will provide a step-by-step process of creating outcomes in Canvas that are aligned with assessment tasks through the scoring devices used in courses. A foundational understanding of the Canvas architecture and how it connects with assessment tasks to automate data collection will be shared. […]
Summary: In this session, we will explore the landscape and shifting terrain of the different conversations unfolding around the impact of AI on assessment, how it is being addressed, where people think it might be going, and what it means for policy and assessment from classroom to career. Presentation Materials: CREATE method: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0g9cfm-09tGDlQNmoBvZsXO1ImwUTmqMBVS1yPfr2o/edit?usp=sharing The future […]
Title: Friday SLO Talk: Kickstarting Academic Year 2023/24 with an Insightful Dive into SLO Assessment & AI’s Impact Description: Welcome to the inaugural session of Friday SLO Talk for the academic year 2023/24! We are thrilled to present a platform that bridges dialogue and knowledge among faculty, assessment practitioners, and various stakeholders in higher education. […]
Abstract The public release and surprising capacity of ChatGPT has brought AI-enabled text generation into the forefront for educators and academics. ChatGPT and similar text generation tools raise numerous questions for educational practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. We begin by first describing what large language models are and how they function, and then situate them in […]